23 APRIL 1925
The trial at Leipzig of Communist leaders charged with murder and conspiracy to overthrow the German Republic by violence has concluded. The three chief accused have been sentenced to death, and others to terms of penal servitude, varying from 15 years to 6 months.
The Conference of Ambassadors has sanctioned the request of Bulgaria for permission to increase the militia in the present emergency.
The General Council of the Trade Union Congress resumed consideration of the report of a sub-committee which recently met representatives of the Russian Trade Unions. The sub-committee, it will be recalled, decided favourably on proposals of co-operation for the promotion of international unity and for the setting up of a Joint Advisory Council between the Trade Union organisations of Great Britain and Russia. The General Council agreed to ratify the recommendations and principles embodied in the chairman’s report.
The Irish Free State Budget was introduced in the Dail. The Minister for Finance, in introducing the Budget, stated that the experiment in protection had been satisfactory, stimulating the industries protected to a remarkable degree.
The arguments were concluded in the case in which an appeal was made against the detention of an Irish prisoner in Maidstone Jail. In giving judgement, the Lord Chief Justice said the order was lawfully and properly made, the detention was lawful, and the rule must be discharged with costs.
The Lord Advocate referred to the Prime Minister’s appeal for peace, in industry at a meeting in Broxburn, describing it as an effort to create an atmosphere in which the employers and employed might come together to find a way out of present difficulties. Mr James Kidd, M.P. for West Lothian, who also addressed the meeting, referred to the growing divisions in the ranks of the Socialist party.
Sir A. Mond, M.P., in a pamphlet, outlines his scheme of subsidised industry for remedying unemployment.
Dr G. E. Spero, late Liberal M.P. for Stoke Newington, has left the Liberal party.